culms decumbent, very slender and weak, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, more or less finely hairy or glabrescent, many-noded, branched from some or most of the nodes, internodes exserted; leaves finely hairy; sheaths thin, rather tight, at length often loose and thrown aside, strongly striate, tubercled between the nerves; ligule an obscure ciliolate rim; blades lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, tapering almost from the broad clasping base to a fine point, 1–3 in. by 1 1/2–3 lin., flat, flaccid, margins scabrid, sometimes callously serrulate and often with a few bristles towards the base; panicles very scanty, flaccid, 1–1 1/2 in. long, consisting of few 5–2-spiculate short branches, up to 1/2 in. long; axis, branches and pedicels filiform, angular, finely hairy or glabrescent, subscaberulous, lateral pedicels very short; spikelets oblong, subobtuse, 1 1/4 lin. long, greenish, glabrous, finely but prominently nerved; lower glume lanceolate to subulate from a broader base, 1-nerved, hyaline, equalling 1/2 of the spikelet; upper glume thinly herbaceous, oblong, subobtuse, 1 lin. long, 7–9-nerved; lower floret ♂; valve like the upper glume, 1 1/4 lin. long, 7–9-nerved; pale slightly shorter, keels scabrid above, evanescent below the hyaline tip; hermaphrodite floret oblong, subobtuse, 1 lin. long, smooth, whitish; valve thinly chartaceous, 5-nerved; anthers 3/8 lin. long. null
